the Siliconopolitan wrote:I just noticed that the strip is signed upside down. Has this happened before?

Heh. There's no conspiracy, I sign upside down all the time.

It's an artistic descision. It's all about filling in "white space."

When I started Nukees, I more often signed right-side up. However, as my backgrounds got more and more complicated, the bottoms of strips got filled in by art, while the tops (where there is more often a featureless ceiling or an empty sky) usually had more white space. However, that's usually covered up by word balloons.

Thus, the white space that needs filling in is most often on the side, especially in a backgroundless panel. So most of my recent signings are sideways.

However, you'll often find me signing upside down when, as in today's strip, there is a panel with no text, because that usually leaves a lot of white space on top.

This is Cindy Lee, not Suzy Gee, right? So it's entirely possible she's got Gav's evilness already and hasn't really done much to show it off.

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Having an "Evil of the Nukees" vector graph would be rather amusing. I'm sure we could figure out appropriate quadrant names. Or if it's in three-dimensions, proper axes names.

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Actually, I'm not sure if I would put Casanovacaine above or below Gav. Certainly in that one altercation, he seemed more evil, because Gav appeared to take the high road for once. But if each were given a satellite-mounted death ray, how would they rank?

But you guys are right... It's hard to look at it like this on a single axis. There's "self-serving" evil and there's "playful" evil and I'm sure a bunch more. There's also the "Chaos/Order" scale (though Seth would argue if even it was one-dimensional).

Hm. Perhaps we need two factors:
-Selfishness level (Se): To what extent the individual is willing to hurt others to further his own goal.
-Sadism level (Sa): To what extent hurting others is the individual's goal.
One might argue that Casanovocaine has a higher Se than Gav - he was willing to resort to rape, which was beneath Gaviscon Aviscena V. Vandarin, however, has a higher Sa - Casanovocaine resorted to rape because he wanted to fulfill his sexual needs, while Gav messes with people's minds even when there is no profit involved - he considers it fun.
And then, of course, there's skill. Casanovocaine can only hurt so many people; Gav could, conceivably, make life hellish for very large crowds. His takeover of Nukeeland, his courtroom war...These illustrate that he can be a serious powerplayer when the occasion presents itself.

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Danny and King Luca are high on the Madness scale, but low on the Evil scale.

Suzy Gee is moderate on both Evil and Madness scales (with both values trending upwards over time).

Cindy Lee is moderate on the Evil scale and fairly low on the Madness scale.

Casanovacaine is high on the Evil scale, but low on the Madness scale.

Teri would seem to be high on both Evil and Madness, but I actually think that, as a being controlled by strict logical imperatives, she has (as another Terry says) actually gone so far into Sanity that she came out the other side. (I think this implies that we're graphing this on a torus.)

Cecilia's fairly high on the Evil scale, and very high on the Madness scale.

Possibly we need a third axis, Science (for the Evil Mad Science trifecta), to distinguish between people like Cecilia (high Evil, high Madness, low Science) and Gav (high Evil, high Madness, high Science).

(Only here would a thread about cute girls undressing polymorph into a thread about graphing evilness.)

This last one might seem controversial, but I think it works as a single axis. sun tzu suggested two different axes, but I think one could make an arguement for a single scale. You're either evil to advance your own causes, or you're evil simply to hurt others--or for the sheer "fun" of it (ie: sadism). What do you guys think? Gav might actually be in the middle of that scale, with Casanovacaine on the "Selfish" side and Cecilia on the "Sadism" side.

I might turn this into an OkCupid test when I'm done, and you can test yourself and find out what Nukees character you are more like. In terms of evilness, that is.

The "Science/Non-Science" might help catagorize Nukees characters, but I don't think it specifically relates to evil axes, other than in terms of style.

Ah, but see, I'm not trying to re-develop a Myers-Briggs test. It's not supposed to be a "personality type" matrix at all. I'm trying to catagorize the different forms of evilness, not the different types of personalities.